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  • Bam's Big Apple bite

    Bam's Big Apple bite

    March 20, 2010

    The Democrats giveth, the Democrats taketh away. And New York comes up losers. An ecstatic Sen. Chuck Schumer announced Thursday that the latest fixes to his party's...

  • Holder's shoot-first wisdom

    Holder's shoot-first wisdom

    March 20, 2010

    Give Attorney General Eric Holder points for candor: Asked this week whether Osama bin Laden would get a civilian trial were he ever to be captured alive, he insisted that the...

  • A terrorist's last(?) laugh

    A terrorist's last(?) laugh

    March 20, 2010

    More than six months have now passed since Libyan Lockerbie bomber Abdul Ali al-Megrahi was given a "compassionate" release from a Scottish prison -- because he had less than...

  • Tax-hike back stab

    Tax-hike back stab

    March 19, 2010

    Look out, suburbia: Here comes a big, fat school-tax hike! For real. The New York state Senate just voted, 56-2, to give local school boards the power to strong-arm through...

  • ObamaCare free lunch

    ObamaCare free lunch

    March 19, 2010

    President Obama and congressional Democrats got a huge gift yesterday from the Congressional Budget Office, which declared that their health-care overhaul would do everything...

  • Fresh face in gov race

    Fresh face in gov race

    March 18, 2010

    As this year’s gubernatorial race gathers momentum, one intriguing candidate has emerged — Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy. This, most emphatically, is not an endorsement of...

  • To bee or not to bee

    To bee or not to bee

    March 18, 2010

    The city Health Department strives vig ilantly to keep New Yorkers safe from cigarettes, trans-fats, salt, calories, unprotected sex and -- well, you name it, and the health...

  • Dems' 'deem' scheme

    Dems' 'deem' scheme

    March 17, 2010

    Nancy Pelosi is a coward, a bully and a hypocrite -- and Barack Obama is hiding behind her skirts. So what does that make him? Pelosi obviously can't find enough votes in...

  • DOE's distractions

    DOE's distractions

    March 17, 2010

    Does Gotham's new-and-improved 59 percent high-school graduation rate -- announced last week to substantial self-applause -- get the job done? City educrats certainly seem to...

  • Meeks' lame excuses

    Meeks' lame excuses

    March 16, 2010

    Rep. Gregory Meeks went on NY1 last night to imply that he is not a crook -- no, indeed -- but merely a con gressman who lent his name to a fund for Hurricane Katrina victims. ...

  • The price of separatist schools

    The price of separatist schools

    March 16, 2010

    Does a radical Muslim have a right to head a New York City public school? The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission seems to think so. That panel ruled last week...

  • TLC meter mess

    TLC meter mess

    March 16, 2010

    Isn't it great that the Taxi & Limousine Commission finally discovered last week that passengers had been overcharged by at least $8.3 million over the last couple of years?...

  • Do something, Dave

    Do something, Dave

    March 15, 2010

    New Yorkers, says Lt. Gov. Dick Ravitch, still don't understand how severe the state's fiscal crisis truly is. If Gov. Paterson insists on sticking around, it's his paramount...

  • Testing NY's tests

    Testing NY's tests

    March 15, 2010

    Taken at face value, last weeks' news that graduation rates in city schools are at historic levels definitely merits applause. The city's four-year high-school graduation rate...

  • Enter the salt police

    Enter the salt police

    March 15, 2010

    Take this one with a large grain of salt. Make that, salt substitute. Mayor Bloomberg's overzealous "we will make you healthy" crusade has found an ally in Albany -- in the...

  • The best sin to tax

    The best sin to tax

    March 14, 2010

    Gov. Paterson and Mayor Bloomberg want to tax soda to fight obesity and, more notably, help plug the state’s $9 billion gap. But here’s a better way to raise cash: tax...

  • Gowanus Canal chaos

    Gowanus Canal chaos

    March 14, 2010

    Want to know what’s in store for neighborhoods near Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, now that federal eco-crats have dropped a giant tarp over the gunky waterway? Ask the folks trying to...

  • Challenging Gilly

    Challenging Gilly

    March 13, 2010

    In the race to replace Gov. Paterson ap pointee Kirsten Gillibrand, New York's (uber-) junior US senator, new names seem to surface daily. The latest: former state banking...

  • Send NYC a space shuttle

    Send NYC a space shuttle

    March 13, 2010

    NASA is looking for new homes for three soon-to-be-decommissioned space shuttles. It would be crazy not to put one in New York. The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum has...

  • How to not hike taxes

    How to not hike taxes

    March 13, 2010

    State lawmakers, take note: Budgets can be balanced without raising taxes or borrowing billions. For proof, look at two recently elected suburban county executives, who...

  • Judge Judy's new friend

    Judge Judy's new friend

    March 12, 2010

    So, why did Andrew Cuomo blink? The attorney general yesterday backed off a probe of possible crimi nal conduct on the part of Gov. Paterson, handing the task to former Court...

  • Back to the starting gate

    Back to the starting gate

    March 12, 2010

    Gov. Paterson yesterday finally pulled the plug on Aqueduct Entertainment Group's lucrative contract to build the city's first racino. What took so long? Paterson based his...

  • It's your fault too, Mike

    It's your fault too, Mike

    March 12, 2010

    Mayor Bloomberg has a lot of nerve criticizing Lt. Gov. Richard Ra vitch's plan to pile up more debt to deal with the state's fiscal crisis. "I think that doesn't pass the...

  • Borrowing trouble

    Borrowing trouble

    March 11, 2010

    Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch is a smart guy, experienced and steeped in the ar cana of municipal finance. This makes the borrow-and-spend budget plan he presented in Albany yesterday...

  • Israel's Biden slap

    Israel's Biden slap

    March 11, 2010

    Timing, former Canadian Prime Minis ter Pierre Trudeau used to say, is the essential ingredient of politics. If so, then the Israeli government committed a boneheaded move...

  • The truth about Indian Point

    The truth about Indian Point

    March 11, 2010

    The Indian Point nuclear power plant is safe. So says the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which noted that the facility last year "operated in a manner that preserved public...

  • Debt addicts

    Debt addicts

    March 10, 2010

    Don't blame Greece for its financial woes, Prime Minister George Papandreou said yesterday after meeting with President Obama. Blame "speculators." Which got us wondering:...

  • Aqueduct slots: all lemons

    Aqueduct slots: all lemons

    March 10, 2010

    Looks like the wheels are falling off the Aqueduct racino proposal. Queens power broker Rev. Floyd Flake yesterday walked away from the deal. Then Gov. Paterson did likewise...

  • Greg Meeks' loud silence

    Greg Meeks' loud silence

    March 10, 2010

    Just last week, Queens Rep. Gregory Meeks said he couldn't wait to sit down for a TV interview to address all allegations raised by a series of Post articles about his supposedly...

  • Democracy in Iraq

    Democracy in Iraq

    March 09, 2010

    It will be several more days before the official results of Iraq's second national parliamentary elections are known -- which, in itself, is a sign of remarkable political...